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    Platforms Americans use to get news, including social media and podcasts

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night television and drew big ratings on Tuesday after ABC suspended him for his comments about the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing. In his opening monologue, Kimmel defended free speech and the freedom of […]

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    How Parents Manage Screen Time for Kids

    About four-in-ten parents say they could be doing better at managing their kid’s screen time. A larger share – 58% – say they’re doing the best they can.

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    NPR and PBS execs testify in Congress

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story At a hearing on Wednesday organized by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the chair of the House subcommittee linked to the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts, congressional Republicans criticized PBS and NPR over what’s been perceived as institutional […]

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    Appendix B: Post and comment classification prompts

    For this report, Reddit posts and comments were classified using the following prompts to GPT-4.1 mini. The prompts were designed to mirror the codebooks that our research team used to create the validation datasets of human-annotated posts and comments. In the prompt templates below, italics indicate input text that varies based on the post or […]

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    What parents say about their teen’s uses of social media

    Warnings about the potential harms of social media for youth are everywhere – some even targeting specific apps. To see if parents’ outlook shift by platform, we surveyed 1,458 U.S. parents of teens ages 13 to 17. We asked parents about how they think social media generally impact their teen. And for the first time, […]

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    WaPo columnist resigns over column criticizing Bezos

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Ruth Marcus, a longtime editor and columnist for the Washington Post opinion section, resigned on Monday after her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos’ changes to the section was scrapped. Bezos announced last month that the opinion section would begin […]